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TIL Shige Sakakura was a Japanese baby farmer and serial killer who, together with her accomplices Tsuta Oki and Naka Ikai, murdered around 200 infants between 1898 and 1913. Their crimes were uncovered when a geisha was denied access to her child and reported them. All three were hanged in 1915.

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